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itself

itself

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Shows that something does an action to the same thing or makes the meaning stronger
  • pronoun
  • /ɪtˈsɛlf/
translation icon : sí mismo
  • But as someone who has gone through the process itself, she says moving countries has many positives.
  • present itself
  • find itself
  • manifest itself

To say that the work of art itself knows?

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Examples

  • Pretty sure the purse was designed to keep things inside itself.

  • The seal itself is faultless, forgery of the highest possible standard.

  • Your will has the capacity to make itself do what it wants.

  • And the weight loss journey itself, it's a journey.

  • In response, the U.S. State Department has committed itself to "Internet freedom" as a specific policy aim.

    Academic text (2011)
  • So it's not the substance itself, it's how you respond to the material.

  • His intention is as much a part of the offense as the act itself.

  • In the 1960s and 1970s, South Korea chose to develop itself through rapid industrialization.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Valves-R-Us is undergoing clinical trials for FDA approval but finds itself running out of funds.

    Academic text (2011)
  • The project itself requires more funding than we anticipated.

Idioms

When you consider something alone without other things

Very easy to do and understand

Compounds

thing-in-itself
  • Specialized
1 9.9

What something really is apart from how people see it

Surface Forms

itself reflexive

Morphology

itself = it + self (transparent) = it + self

Formed from the pronoun 'it' plus 'self' following the productive reflexive pattern (e.g., himself, herself), so the meaning is readily derivable for learners.

Etymology

Itself comes from joining it and self, where self means 'the same one' or 'own', as in myself and yourself. So itself is used to refer back to a thing or to make it stronger.